Everything he did?
He never asked for permission or if what he did was legal. He never talked down or demanded respect, he just wanted a good fight. He befriended most of his enemies, saw them as peers. His transformations were tit for tat. He broke the “rules” all of the time.
But he also didn’t try to dismantle the systems that made folks fight in the first place nor the hierarchies on any of the planets etc he lived on/interacted with, and his close intimate relationships didn’t seem that anarchist.
So maybe closer than some but didn’t go far enough.
I think you’re confusing a revolutionary for an anarchist.
Son Goku, in every JtþW parody, has always been the anarchist relief. He got tamed, even in Dragon Ball. He fought fascists, dictators, imperialists, deities, and masters.
In the end, Bloomers/Tang Sanzang, the liberal, won exploiting everyone, even in the original timeline. In Daima, she’s quite literally the heroine.
I am an anarchist, anarchists are against hierarchy, that’s what the word means.
He had the power to dismantle hierarchy, he should have used it.
Edit: Good to know he did fight those folks though, but if you’re not at least trying to dismantle the systems that created them, then you’re not actually an anarchist.
Anarchists want to get rid of the systems of control, power and hierarchy which cause the problems in the first place, not merely to continously fight the ‘bad guys’ but do nothing about them being created.
I am an anarchist too😁, and Son Goku was against many injustices by various hierarchies in his adventures. The fascists died, the dictators either reformed or died. The imperialists died, and got resurrected later. Zamasu is stuck on his universe. Without fighting Masters, Goku would have never met Gohan, and found a grandfather to call his own.
It’s that not everything he does is anarchic, but he is not the focus of the satire. He is merely a vehicle to process an ethic. A Buddhist ethic if you will.
Everything he did?
He never asked for permission or if what he did was legal. He never talked down or demanded respect, he just wanted a good fight. He befriended most of his enemies, saw them as peers. His transformations were tit for tat. He broke the “rules” all of the time.
Bejita on the other hand is a true authoritarian.
Okay, sure…
But he also didn’t try to dismantle the systems that made folks fight in the first place nor the hierarchies on any of the planets etc he lived on/interacted with, and his close intimate relationships didn’t seem that anarchist.
So maybe closer than some but didn’t go far enough.
I think you’re confusing a revolutionary for an anarchist.
Son Goku, in every JtþW parody, has always been the anarchist relief. He got tamed, even in Dragon Ball. He fought fascists, dictators, imperialists, deities, and masters.
In the end, Bloomers/Tang Sanzang, the liberal, won exploiting everyone, even in the original timeline. In Daima, she’s quite literally the heroine.
I am an anarchist, anarchists are against hierarchy, that’s what the word means.
He had the power to dismantle hierarchy, he should have used it.
Edit: Good to know he did fight those folks though, but if you’re not at least trying to dismantle the systems that created them, then you’re not actually an anarchist.
Anarchists want to get rid of the systems of control, power and hierarchy which cause the problems in the first place, not merely to continously fight the ‘bad guys’ but do nothing about them being created.
I am an anarchist too😁, and Son Goku was against many injustices by various hierarchies in his adventures. The fascists died, the dictators either reformed or died. The imperialists died, and got resurrected later. Zamasu is stuck on his universe. Without fighting Masters, Goku would have never met Gohan, and found a grandfather to call his own.
Thank you.
Not sure I necessarily agree everything about him is anarchist, but I admit that’s some compelling evidence.
It’s that not everything he does is anarchic, but he is not the focus of the satire. He is merely a vehicle to process an ethic. A Buddhist ethic if you will.